Assessing Risk Assessment: Towards Alternative Risk Measures for Complex Financial Systems - Softcover

Hoffmann, Christian Hugo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3658200316 ISBN 13: 9783658200312

Publisher: Springer Gabler, 2017

Synopsis

Christian Hugo Hoffmann undermines the citadel of risk assessment and management, arguing that classical probability theory is not an adequate foundation for modeling systemic and extreme risk in complex financial systems. He proposes a new class of models which focus on the knowledge dimension by precisely describing market participants’ own positions and their propensity to react to outside changes. The author closes his thesis by a synthetical reflection on methods and elaborates on the meaning of decision-making competency in a risk management context in banking. By choosing this poly-dimensional approach, the purpose of his work is to explore shortcomings of risk management approaches of financial institutions and to point out how they might be overcome.

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About the Author

Christian Hugo Hoffmann completed his doctoral studies at the University of St. Gallen and Yale University. He co-founded a financial risk management start-up which translates these theoretical results into practical impact.  

From the Back Cover

Christian Hugo Hoffmann undermines the citadel of risk assessment and management, arguing that classical probability theory is not an adequate foundation for modeling systemic and extreme risk in complex financial systems. He proposes a new class of models which focus on the knowledge dimension by precisely describing market participants’ own positions and their propensity to react to outside changes. The author closes his thesis by a synthetical reflection on methods and elaborates on the meaning of decision-making competency in a risk management context in banking. By choosing this poly-dimensional approach, the purpose of his work is to explore shortcomings of risk management approaches of financial institutions and to point out how they might be overcome.

Contents

• Concepts, Model Level and Risk Assessment
  
• The Transition to the Decision Level, Risk Assessment and Management
  
• In Search of a NewParadigm: The Third Way as a Road to Logic-Based Risk Modeling (LBR)
  
• Meta Level: Thinking about Thinking and Practices – What it Means to Reach Effective Risk Management Decisions
  

Target Groups

• Researchers, academics, and students in the fields of finance and management
  
• Risk professionals, consultants, analysts, politicians in the fields of economic and financial policy
  

The Author

Christian Hugo Hoffmann completed his doctoral studies at the University of St. Gallen and Yale University. He co-founded a financial risk management start-up which translates these theoretical results into practical impact.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3658200316
• ISBN 13: 9783658200312
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 391